? Tesla Factory, Fremont California

Elon Musk runs 3 billion-dollar businesses – here’s his secret sauce ?
? Note: it’s more than just putting in 100 hour work weeks.

 

Video Transcript:

 

A natural human tendency is wishful thinking.

A challenge for entrepreneurs is to say, what’s the difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking to them versus pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn’t actually have merit.

That is a really difficult thing to tell.

Can you tell the difference between those two things, you know?

You need to be sort of very rigorous in your self- analysis.

If other people are putting in 40-hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100-hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing, you know that you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.